21st April 2009, 8:28 PM
The Magnavox Odyssey, first videogame console. Hmm, I don't know what I think of this one... insulting the first one isn't right. I mean, it was something that had never been done before... managing to take something that could just move a few lines around the screen and making a whole bunch of games out of it took a lot of work. If you take the games seriously and play them as they're supposed to, it looks plenty fun...
Of course, since it doesn't stop you from cheating, the impulse to do that in a lot of games would be very strong. And that's why programming games to keep you from doing things you shouldn't be allowed to is good. But still, for the first ever... pretty amazing stuff, to say the least.
He is right about the lightgun though, I'd say... :)
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Of course, since it doesn't stop you from cheating, the impulse to do that in a lot of games would be very strong. And that's why programming games to keep you from doing things you shouldn't be allowed to is good. But still, for the first ever... pretty amazing stuff, to say the least.
He is right about the lightgun though, I'd say... :)
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